A badge of honor to the Russian media

Written by Nasser Kandil,

When the European Parliament votes for a recommendation to punish the Russian mass media as a danger against Europe, and puts it with the media which promotes for ISIS as the same danger, it shows how Europe is concerned about the growth and the development of the Russian media in its modern and contemporary version, It is a pure fabrication as the Europeans know by comparing between the Russian media and the media which promotes for ISIS and the terrorism. The Europeans know as a public opinion that Russia is repositioning in the real place in the war on terrorism and that the governments of Europe have stood in an ambiguous place and around which the suspicions of supporting terrorism are hovering. The European polls say the same thing about the lowness of the popularity of the French President to 4 % in a parallel with the accusation of the French President Francois Hollande by his opponents for supporting Al Nusra Front which represents Al –Qaeda organization officially in its war against the Syrian country. The most fortunate candidate of the center-right and the candidate of the Right Marie Le Pen who competes him on the forthcoming presidency in France and who share nearly 80% of voters said that too, but they agree that the bias of Hollande to support Al Nusra has formed a reason for its growth and the continuation of the war on Syria, so the criticism against Russia by the rulers of Europe is its standing with the Syrian country against Al Nusra.

Two months ago the official fierce European campaign was targeting the Russian diplomacy, but the campaigns of intimidation and misinformation have failed in weakening the diplomatic position of Russia. Today Europe’s rulers recognize the fact that the Russian media is no longer marginal, and it is not just virtual opponent, but it is media that penetrates to the forces of the public opinion in Europe and affects its directions. Punishing the Russian mass media financially and then banning and restricting it is not but a revelation of the tightness felt by the rulers of the West, while they are seeing that their followers believe in what is said by the Russian media against these rulers, after the Western media was the source for the Russian citizens to know about their countries and their rulers, but now the roles are reversed along with the Western aggressive hysteria as a sign of the inability to confront in the freedom arenas, because running the game according to professional rules has got the acceptance of the public opinion which believes in the closest to the truth and the most honest, however resorting to punishment and prosecution is just an expression of recognizing two facts the high effectivity of the Russian media on one hand, and the inability to keep up with it and compete it according to the rules of the professional media equation.

When the elected US President Donald Trump said that the administration of the President Barack Obama was a partner in the birth of ISIS and a supporter of Al Nusra front, and that the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton supports through her relationships with Saudi Arabia the terrorist formations in Syria, the people believed Trump and elected him as a president to their country although the Russian diplomacy has mentioned that many years ago, knowing that the Russian media has strived to document the realities which reveal this fact professionally. When the candidates for the French presidency compete in accusing the President Francois Hollande about his responsibility of the growth of terrorism and its rootedness in France because of legalizing the policy of mobilizing the extremists to Syria, and when the Russian media spends effort, money,  and time to document these facts and  presenting them to the public opinion, then logically two things must occur, first the Russian media becomes closer to the Western public opinion than its giant mass media which consumes billions of dollars, and despite of that it fails in promoting the candidate Clinton, and in raising the popularity of the President Hollande. Second, the West rulers are fed up with the Russian media, so they will prevent the freedoms and revenge by the force of suppression, prevention, prohibition, and the inquisition. The Russian media will get the respect of the public opinion and the sympathy of the real owners of freedoms and the opponents of the freedom and the fact will lose their battles at once.

Greeting to the qualitative professional shift witnessed by the Russian mass media, and which qualified it to get the highest Western badge, which is the badge of sanctions.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,